Acute Pain Management and Perceptions among Emergency Healthcare Workers: Feedback From Greece
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Jan 14, 2023
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Article Category: Original Paper
Published Online: Jan 14, 2023
Page range: 22 - 31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjaic-2022-0004
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Frequencies and percentages of correct responses on questions regarding pain assessment_
| Which of the following pain assessment tools do you use more frequently in your everyday practice? | ||
| When do you consider the analgesic regimen you provided successful? | ||
| Do you reassess a patient after providing analgesia? | ||
| Vital signs are a reliable way to assess the intensity and the severity of pain a patient feels. | ||
| Absence of expression of pain by the patients signifies lack of pain. | ||
| Pain assessment tools are necessary. | ||
| The most reliable sign of the severity of pain someone is experiencing is the patient's description. | ||
Demographic and background data of the participants (n=101)_
| Male | 58 (57%) |
| Female | 43 (43%) |
| <35 | 57 (57%) |
| >35 | 44 (44%) |
| <5 | 44 (44%) |
| >5 | 57 (57%) |
| Anaesthesiology | 12 (12%) |
| Internal Medicine | 24 (24%) |
| Surgical specialties | 57 (56%) |
| Emergency medicine | 8 (8%) |
| City | 87 (86%) |
| Suburb | 14 (14 %) |
| Yes | 16 (16%) |
| No | 85 (84%) |
| Yes | 24 (26%) |
| No | 69 (74%) |
| Unaware | 8 |
Frequencies and percentages of correct responses on questions regarding pain perceptions_
| Due to time shortage when handling emergencies, there is no time to achieve effective analgesia. | ||
| Up to diagnosis, no analgesia should be given to the patient. | ||
| On patients having consumed alcohol, no analgesia should be given. | ||
| Complete pain alleviation in the ED is not a realistic goal. | ||
| Patients with no or low level of consciousness cannot perceive pain. | ||
| If a patient's attention can be distracted from his/her pain, then the pain is not severe. | ||
| Administration of placebo to patients in pain is a useful way to understand if their pain is real. | ||
| If a medical doctor does not consider a patient's condition painful, he/she should not administer analgesia. | ||
| Same stimuli on different patients cause pain of the same severity and intensity. | ||
| It is a patient's right to seek pain relief. | ||
| A patient's opinion should not be included during decision making with regard to pain relief. | ||
| The opinion of my peers in my workplace, strongly affects the way I handle a patient's pain. | ||
| Each patient's perception of acute pain is unique due to factors such as sex, cultural and religious beliefs and previous experiences that influence a patient's response to pain. | ||
| Medication for pain relief in the ED should be given only when the pain is severe. |
Frequencies and percentages of correct responses on questions regarding opioids and opiophobia_
| Do you feel comfortable giving opioids for acute pain management? | ||
| Opioids can hide the diagnosis, therefore should not be given when the reason a person is in pain remains unknown. | ||
| An increased need for opioid analgesics is a sign the patient becomes dependent. | ||